The reddit echo chamber gets more echo-y -- users now allowed to effectively moderate their own posts

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[–]AXXA 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Saidit gets it right by giving users the choice to manipulate their own reality. Reddit gets it wrong by allowing users to forcefully manipulate everybody else's reality. It's also telling that they locked the post. CC /u/magnora7 /u/d3rr

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed, this is troubling

[–]BravoVictor 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Doesn't matter. Reddit began a slow self-destruction though misinformation play when they hide vote counts and throttled your ability to message once the hivemind downvoted you. That effectively does the same thing. If someone posts misinformation, but misinformation most sub users like, anyone citing counter-factuals will be effectively or literally banned.

For example, I posted Joe Rogan's recent response to claims that he spreads "misinformation" in a couple Reddit subs, and it was resoundedly downvoted, and the comments suggested most hadn't even watched the video. It was just knee jerk npc hatred. A few users even posted misinformation like "Rogan takes horse drugs!" or "Rogan kills people!"

A handful of users seemed to actually watch the video, and said it was interesting. They were heavily downvoted and called names, and their comments hidden.

[–]wtfppl-1st 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

It's likely that the hostilities on reddit are mostly created by bots.

I watched r/subredditsimulator conversations evolve over the time the sub was up into what I could see people easily believing are other people.

[–]Tiwaking 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Thats why we dont have downvotes here. If people disagree they can comment or just....not look. Whatever.

[–]NeedMoreCoffee 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

If someone blocks you you cant even comment on the entire thread even if you are not replying to them. Ive already got the twitter "insult and block" treatment from someone who could not make a decent argument to safe his life.

I'm not quite sure wtf they were thinking with this block thing.

[–]jet199 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

This is a great idea.

Which sub should I game?

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

/r/All

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I did get to r/all once.

I'll have to work out what I did right that time.

[–]UrOpinion_Is_Invalid 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Reddit has been dying for a long time and this is only one of the examples why it is not a good discussion forum anymore. To power tripping mods/admins to incompetent devs everything seems to be deteriorating into a user-hostile platform and a perfect opportunity for anyone to spread whatever misinformation/agenda they like with given enough time and effort. I have been hearing so many controversies about Reddit lately, and it is absolutely disgraceful and unacceptable for a website that promotes itself as so called "a platform for free speech" and "the front page of internet". And I can't imagine how many other controversies we have not heard of because of reddit's extensive ban policy against any post/comment that exposes them for this kind of shitty behaviour. I hope people realise how manipulated the content on reddit is by select few individuals and corporations, and mass migrate to another platform and let reddit rot, like it happened to Digg, which ironically enough how reddit earned its popularity today.

[–]frogleaps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Did Digg have an agenda? Bots that perfectly mimic humans? Shills?

[–]wtfppl-1st 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[Reminder] r/subredditsimulator

[–]Questionable 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Back at the turn of the millennium, I used to be able to clip entire sections of threads, in my own posts, on the TeamXbox forums. Of course, there wasn't crypto involved, and those were proper single thread forums, and not designed for engagement and dopamine feedback loops, and the voting system was disabled. So, right direction, wrong reason.

[–]Bob_Faget 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You're a self-admitted Far-Leftist fuckwit anyway. Why do you care? You should want this! Lmao!

[–]AcceleratedWallops[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Aww, you don't know what the left stands for, but you hate them anyway because you're obsessed with identity politics and tribalism, how cute!

[–]frogleaps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Left can't survive without authoritarianism, which in turn can't survive without censorship. What Reddit is doing is definition of censorship, so it's odd that a leftist would oppose it.

[–]AcceleratedWallops[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ignoring the entire libleft quadrant? Nice

Implying that the right (and alt-right especially!) aren't authoritarian? Nice

[–]SoCo 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This technique was used to attack me on reddit recently. Moderators or admin removed my comment pointing it out.

This gives me the impression that abuse of this has already become a widespread technique by activist brigades.